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EP About this file: EP0392660

EP0392660 - Probe head [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  09.07.1994
Database last updated on 11.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip17.02.2006Change - lapse in a contracting state
Updated state(s): FR
published on 05.04.2006  [2006/14]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Renishaw plc
New Mills Wotton-under-Edge
Gloucestershire GL12 8JR / GB
[N/P]
Former [1990/42]For all designated states
Renishaw plc
New Mills
Wotton-Under-Edge Gloucestershire GL12 8JR / GB
Inventor(s)01 / Bennett, Simon James
Endfield Cottage, The Park
Painswick, Gloucestershire GL6 6SN / GB
[1990/42]
Representative(s)Waite, John, et al
Renishaw plc Patent Department New Mills Wotton-under-Edge
Gloucestershire GL12 8JR / GB
[N/P]
Former [1990/42]Waite, John, et al
Renishaw plc Patent Department New Mills
Wotton-under-Edge Gloucestershire GL12 8JR / GB
Application number, filing date90302595.512.03.1990
[1990/42]
Priority number, dateGB1989000853714.04.1989         Original published format: GB 8908537
GB1989002731202.12.1989         Original published format: GB 8927312
[1990/42]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0392660
Date:17.10.1990
Language:EN
[1990/42]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0392660
Date:27.02.1991
Language:EN
[1991/09]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0392660
Date:08.09.1993
Language:EN
[1993/36]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP08.01.1991
ClassificationIPC:G01B5/00
[1990/42]
CPC:
G01B5/012 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesCH,   DE,   FR,   GB,   IT,   LI,   SE [1990/42]
TitleGerman:Tastkopf[1990/42]
English:Probe head[1990/42]
French:Tête de palpeur[1990/42]
Examination procedure09.04.1990Examination requested  [1990/42]
09.09.1992Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
05.03.1993Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
10.03.1993Communication of intention to grant the patent
11.05.1993Fee for grant paid
11.05.1993Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)09.06.1994No opposition filed within time limit [1994/35]
Fees paidRenewal fee
19.02.1992Renewal fee patent year 03
17.02.1993Renewal fee patent year 04
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipFR08.09.1993
SE08.09.1993
[2006/14]
Former [1994/45]SE08.09.1993
FR28.01.1994
Former [1994/26]SE08.09.1993
Documents cited:Search[A]JP61204502  ;
 [A]FR1544088  (COMMISSARIAT ENERGIE ATOMIQUE);
 [A]GB2129357  (HILTI AG);
 [A]DE3712249  (DRECOLL HARM [DE]);
 [AD]WO8502138  (RENISHAW PLC [GB])
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 11, no. 35 (P-542)(2482), 3 February 1987; & JP-A-61 204 502 (FUJIOKA SEIKO K.K.) 10.09.1986, & JP61204502 A 19870203
ExaminationGB2139357
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